Our Values
Quality
Quality always comes first. High quality advice, high quality documents. Downtown expertise at suburban prices.
Customer Service
Our friendly lawyers have customer service on their minds at all times. We strive to impress.
Flat fees
95% of our clients are charged reasonable flat rates that they know from day one. No surprises.
Donations
We donate 1% of our revenue to charity each year. Healthy communities result in healthy businesses.
Our Firm’s Story
Westcoast Wills & Estates was started in 2011 by one lawyer with a dream of providing high quality, specialized legal services to the masses at affordable prices while at the same time, doing some good for the world. Now, we’ve grown to about 20 employees, we’ve donated more than $100,000 to charity, and we provide high quality estate planning documents to more than 1,000 clients per year.
Sustainability
For the next generation of British Columbians will inherit the same benefits as our generation did. We endeavour to reduce waste and inefficiencies where possible. This includes:
Striving to maintain a near-paperless office
Printing final documents on 30% recycled paper
Printing nearly all other documents on 100% recycled paper
Striving to reduce our carbon footprint wherever possible
Hybrid work from home and the office for staff
We Donate 1% of Revenue to Charity
Westcoast Wills & Estates believes that every business should contribute to the society it serves. 1% might sound small, but it has been over $100,000 donated so far.
- CPAWS BC (2023): To protect at least 50% of Canada’s wilderness and oceans, keeping B.C.’s great parks, oceans and ecosystems wild for centuries.
- CPAWS BC (2020-22)
- Ecojustice (2013, 2020-22): Canada’s foremost non-profit environmental law organization working to protect the environment by going to court to defend the right of Canadians to a healthy environment.
- Nature Trust of British Columbia (2019-22): Dedicated to the management of over 480 conservation properties spanning 175,000 acres of land in the province.
- Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society (2018): Their mission is to protect at least 50% of Canada’s wilderness and oceans, keeping B.C.’s great parks, oceans and ecosystems wild for this century and beyond.
- BC SPCA (2013, 2017): Their mission is to protect and enhance the quality of life for domestic, farm and wild animals in B.C.
- Wilderness Committee (2016): Their mission is to protect Canada’s life-giving biological diversity through strategic research and grassroots public education.
- Nature Conservancy of Canada (2015): They target key areas across the country where habitat conservation is needed. They protect and care for ecologically important habitats, with a focus on rare and at-risk species.
- David Suzuki Foundation (2013-14): Works through science and education to protect the diversity of nature and our quality of life, now and for the future.
- Family Services of the North Shore (2014, 2023): Helps young people overcome desperate lives on the street to make a fresh start.
- Covenant House (2013, 2020-22): Helps young people overcome desperate lives on the street so they can make a fresh start.
- Indian Residential School Survivors Society (2020-22): Provides services to support Indian Residential School survivors, students and intergenerational survivors.
- North Shore Community Resources (2019): Serving the North Shore, by extending a hand up to those in need. Helping to restore our neighbours to health, and stability benefits the whole community.
- Harvest Project (2018): Serving the North Shore, by extending a hand up to those in need. Helping to restore our neighbours to health and stability benefits the whole community.
- North Shore Search & Rescue (2017): Their mission is to search for, rescue and assist people in distress; and educate the public about the North Shore’s back-country.
- Access Pro Bono Society of BC (2015-16): Their mission is to promote access to justice in BC by providing and fostering quality pro bono legal services for people and non-profit organizations of limited means.
- BC Cancer Foundation (2013-15): The largest charitable funder of cancer research in British Columbia.
- Pivot Foundation (2013): Works to end poverty and marginalization through mostly legal means particularly in the downtown eastside of Vancouver.
- Canadian Red Cross (2023): Helps people and communities in Canada and worldwide in times of need and supports strengthening their resilience.
- Rainbow Railroad (2020-22: In countries around the world, LGBTQI+ people face violence and oppression simply because of who they love or who they are. Rainbow Railroad helps them get to safety.
- Doctors without Borders (2013-2019): The world’s leading independent international medical humanitarian organization.
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